Child Trends' latest brief, Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts, identifies 43 programs that have somewhat to very sizable, statistically significant impacts on adolescent or young adult outcomes. The brief uses Child Trends' online database of experimentally evaluated social interventions for children and youth, Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS), to identify programs with manuals that have positive impacts on a range of outcomes, such as behavior problems, physical health, and education.
Young adults have the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the United States, as well as high rates of STDs. Two recently published Child Trends' studies in the journal, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, assess how risk factors in adolescence and relationship characteristics in young adulthood are associated with reproductive health outcomes among this population.
